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Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] [adv] " in BNC.

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1	The sunken eyes had filled up again with pus and gazed apathetically ahead .
2	And er I had to fall back very often just write , I saw Mr follow the horse in in in that that churning power .
3	Perhaps the train in Aunt Louise 's mind had jumped back on to the rail for a while because it was then , in quite a conversational voice , that she began to speak of her daughter .
4	As soon as she realised what had happened she had jumped down guiltily and run home .
5	In a recent wardship case decided under the old law , Re H ( Minors ) ( Wardship : Sexual Abuse ) [ 1991 ] FLR 416 the Court of Appeal had to carry out just such a balancing exercise when deciding whether to make an interim care order in respect of four children alleged to be at risk of sexual abuse .
6	You had to sit up straight and there was barely room for your knees .
7	The sudden question threw her off balance , literally , and she had to sit back hastily in the chair at Faye 's bedside to regain her physical and mental equilibrium .
8	I had to sit down again .
9	So I got up , but I was that s weak I had to sit down again and er the n the nurse that come in she said , You stop there till doctor comes .
10	Had to sit down again .
11	She was not gross in any disgusting way , though she had to sit down carefully , for it was a tight fit for her to squeeze into the chair with its wooden arms .
12	I had to sit down twice because of the roast beef and everything , which had gone straight to my legs .
13	The area had heated up considerably , without heavy boots the floor would burn .
14	Hampstead , erm , round Hampstead , round Highgate , had to drive up there , it 's so nice .
15	The rise sent shares to new lows in the City only hours after dealers had cheered up briefly at Britain 's better than expected trade figures .
16	Xanthe had cheered up remarkably through being the centre of sympathetic attention , and Filmer was telling Mercer Lorrimore he should sue the railway company for millions of dollars for negligence .
17	Angelina had cheered up considerably , having rid herself of the burden of guilt she was carrying .
18	Joanna had cheered up considerably by the time Sophie had finished , and Sophie 's spirits were still high as she drove out to visit the old ladies ' home .
19	By the time I reappeared , Lisabeth had cheered up enough to smile weakly , having adopted the invalid-on-the-sickbed routine .
20	Until about two hundred years ago , they had developed along pretty much the same lines .
21	They then moved west to a new holding area at Bir Zalten , sixty miles south of the German positions at El Agheila , which had been recced by Mike Sadler who had flown up there during the first week in November .
22	Angie Bowie : ‘ The Christmas before recording ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , I had flown back home to see my parents .
23	Either the loathsome Mr Sterne had flown out here deliberately to coincide with her lonely holiday , which seemed most unlikely , or else Charles and Lucy had somehow omitted to inform him that Virginia was coming in their place .
24	The answer was that he had flown out quite coincidentally to attend a wedding .
25	The scene was done in front of a studio audience and Fulton had broken up completely .
26	Like The Fabulous Baker Boys , the King Brothers had broken up as much because they 'd ‘ had it up to here ’ as because of the ominous advent of ‘ the group ’ .
27	By the autumn of 1182 war had broken out again in Aquitaine .
28	In the north , old rivalries had broken out afresh : powerful Rases intrigued and fought for supremacy , struggled to suppress rebellion among their vassals , or marched on Addis Ababa .
29	She felt her face colour , but before she could invent an answer Luke had broken in again .
30	Stephanie had broken off breathlessly to announce this in English to Anneliese , adding with a determined glitter of hostility in her eyes , ‘ What time does your flight go tomorrow , Signorina Hastings ? ’